here I am!

It is going to be harder to keep this blog updated than I thought!

Things have been busy though. I started my school internship last week and am enjoying it. My supervisor is great, the kids are really cute, and the speech room is sunny with blue walls and smells like cinnamon. Not bad at all. I have only observed so far, so I'm sure I will have more to say once I begin therapy.

Nathan had his swallow study done last week (he was having some difficultly swallowing). We are relieved to know there is nothing abnormal, and will hear more about the results tomorrow.

We had a freezing cold fun weekend sledding and going to dinner with friends. We also went to see Nate's sweet grandma, and Nate held onto her hand as she watched him.

I recently finished reading "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom and was amazed. It would have been a very depressing book were it not for the bright faith that Corrie and her family held onto during circumstances so horrific that they were difficult to imagine. About her time spent in a concentration camp with her sister, Corrie writes:

"It grew harder and harder. Even within these four walls there was too much misery, too much seemingly pointless suffering. Every day something else failed to make sense, something else grew too heavy. 'Will You carry this too, Lord Jesus?'

"But as the rest of the world grew stranger, one thing became increasingly clear. And that was the reason the two of us were here. Why others should suffer we were not shown. As for us, from morning until lights-out, whenever we were not in ranks for roll call, our Bible was the center of an ever-widening circle of help and hope. The blacker the night grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God... Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory."

Theirs is such a powerful story, and makes me strive to see God working in my own circumstances and to praise Him regardless. Such a moving book, I highly recommend it.

This week will be another cold and busy one. It is so good for us to be reminded to enjoy just living where God has us right now.

And now it's time to start dinner for my handsome and hard-workin man!